After losing 89-84 to the New York Knicks on Sunday before the 75th consecutive sellout at Oracle Arena, the Warriors face a two-game road trip that could erase their advantage in the Western Conference playoff race.

The Warriors, who once trailed by 12, were down 87-84 with 5 seconds left. Stephen Curry thought his three-point attempt would be blocked, so he tried to toss the ball to a too-close Draymond Green, only to have it bounce away.

The Knicks' Shannon Brown picked up the loose ball, was fouled and drained two free throws to drop the sixth-place Warriors (45-28) to two games ahead of ninth-place Memphis, a day before they leave for a back-to-back set in Dallas and San Antonio.

"If I could do it over, I'd probably just find a way to shoot it regardless, but I thought I made the right play and just didn't connect," said Curry, who scored a game-high 32 points but had just one assist. "It was a tough way to end it."

Maybe the Texas trip will spark some urgency in the Warriors, who were without power forward David Lee (hamstring) and center Andrew Bogut (pelvic/groin bruise) and continued to drop home games to lesser opponents.

The Knicks (31-43), who had lost three of their past four games, dealt the Warriors their seventh bad home loss of the season. They also dropped games to sub-.500 teams Charlotte, Cleveland and Denver, .500 Minnesota, up-and-down Washington and San Antonio's junior-varsity team.

"I think the only team that has handled its business consistently throughout the year is the Spurs," said Warriors head coach Mark Jackson. "They've separated themselves, and that's why they're the best team in the business right now. We're developing, and we certainly own the fact that we've lost some games that we should have won."

On a day when the Warriors missed Lee for a second consecutive game and Jackson said the power forward "still can't run" on his strained right hamstring, the team also released less-than-ideal news about Bogut.

An MRI exam revealed no structural damage but the bruise, which Jackson predicted will keep the big man off the court until at least Friday's game against Sacramento. That would be a week after Bogut was injured by a flying knee to the groin from Memphis centerMarc Gasol.

The Warriors started Jermaine O'Neal and Marreese Speights up front and signed 6-foot-11 Hilton Armstrong, 29, to a 10-day contract, but everyone in a home uniform had trouble finding continuity.

After starting 5-of-6 from three-point range, the Warriors missed their next 13 attempts, and J.R. Smith and Tim Hardaway Jr. scored the half's final 15 points to give the Knicks a 56-44 lead. Curry finally ended the drought with 2:02 remaining in the third quarter, connecting from long range to trim the deficit to 70-64.

Curry's sixth three-pointer tied it 81-81 with 2:41 on the clock, but the Warriors never took a fourth-quarter lead.

"We'll see where we end up. We feel like we're good enough," Green said. "... The urgency level is high, and we've got to rise to that."